A north-east library will be demolished next week to make way for its replacement.
Mintlaw Library is being relocated to the MACBI centre after being saved from closure.
However, while works are carried out on the centre extension, the library services will be temporarily based out of the Discovery Centre on Station Road.
The current building, adjacent to the MACBI building, closed on Thursday.
In a pilot initiative, library customers will also be able to request books to be delivered direct to their home and can also request a “family box” service which will contain books specially selected by library staff to meet the interests of individual families.
Further community outreach services such as Bookbug, Lego Club and Reading Groups will be developed along with the staff at MACBI.
The mobile library will operate at MACBI every second Friday from September 13 and will be open to the public from 9am-noon.
Peterhead and Fraserburgh Libraries will continue to offer a full service.
David Cook, chairman of the Live Life Aberdeenshire sport and culture sub-committee, said: “We are very much looking forward to this new way of partnership working with MACBI.
“Whilst the building is being developed we have made every effort to ensure that our customers are not too inconvenienced and I am delighted that this gives us the opportunity to look at new and innovative ways of bringing books and learning to our communities.”
Councillor Norman Smith, chairman of the Buchan area committee, added: “MACBI is looking forward to a novel new way of working with Mintlaw Library.
“It is certainly going to be a different way of delivering a library service, and we are hugely excited about this opportunity for partnership working.”
The new library facility at MACBI is scheduled to open in August 2020.
